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Many Americans have these underlying conditions.

Diabetes: 10.5%
Lung Disease: 13.4%
Cancer: ~4.8%
Immunodeficiency: 2.7%
Heart Disease: 12.1%
Hypertension: 45% (!)
Asthma: 7.7%
Kidney Disease: 15%
GI/Liver Disease: 1.8%

Some have more than one. But they aren’t that rare. 🧵
Are you in really good shape? If not, you may have one of these pre-existing conditions, according to NYC's clinical definitions.

See for example:
nytimes.com/2020/03/30/opi…
CITATION

Prevalences for each condition, in order.

diabetes.org/resources/stat…

lung.org/research/trend…

cancer.gov/about-cancer/u…

jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/h…

cdc.gov/bloodpressure/…

aafa.org/asthma-facts/

kidney.org/news/one-seven…

cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/l…
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Balaji S. Srinivasan
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Act 1 was the virus — and is still ongoing — but Act 2 is a series of economic crises beyond anything we’ve seen before.

Like a meteor hitting the ocean it has kicked off a series of tsunamis, some of which are listed below, all of which are gathering steam.
More burgeoning crises, some of which are not economic:

- higher ed crisis: tuition no longer paid if lockdown continues

- SMB crisis: many have or will go bust

- police crisis: many getting infected, others depolicing

- military crisis: aircraft carriers being sidelined
- Hollywood crisis: studios shuttered, theaters down, zero rev, productions delayed indefinitely

- EU crisis: leaders openly saying it may fly apart

- Federal crisis: 50 states going their own way, no central coordination

- Soft power crisis: quickly losing influence abroad
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Balaji S. Srinivasan
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DIY masks are just the beginning. Autarky is back.

Autarky is simultaneously anti-capitalist and ultra-capitalist.

Build so you don’t need to buy, so you can withdraw from the market.

Or build so you can sell, so you can win the market.

But build.
I’ve been interested in technological autarky for some time.

It’s a natural extension of open source, buying local, 3D printing, and other trends.

Interesting to see how far we can push it given that we have the internet.
In addition to tech, biotech, and crypto I think entrepreneurs should help turn America into producers again.

There has been phenomenal work on the “producer internet” — tools for analytics, graphic design, and so on.

What about the physical world?
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Balaji S. Srinivasan
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2020 may end the 20th century, the century of mass society.

Concerts, events, rallies, marches, K12, higher ed, restaurants, bars, airplanes, mass transit.

Anything with tightly packed crowds of people is now a health hazard. Permanently reduced demand.
Concerts, events → streaming

Rallies, marches → slacktivism is the new activism

K12, higher ed → online

Restaurants, bars → cloud kitchens, delivery

Airplanes → infrequent except for permanent relocation, replace with VR tours

Mass transit → individual autonomous cars
Best counterargument: after Spanish Flu we had Roaring 20s

Best counter-counterargument: seems crucial to dig into, but circumstances appear different.

Economy feels less resilient, more leveraged. Spanish Flu lockdowns didn’t mean soaring unemployment. Worth diligencing...
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Be sure to look at the list of "underlying conditions":
"diabetes, lung disease, cancer, immunodeficiency, heart disease, hypertension, asthma, kidney disease, GI/Liver disease" - tell me how many in America wouldn't be classified with one of these "underlying conditions"? 1/
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Lung disease
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